Weekly Worker 779 Thursday July 23 2009

Is Labour dead and buried as a bourgeois workers party?

Is Labour still a bourgeois workers’ party? What, if anything, does this expression mean? Mike Macnair continues the debate

What follows is a write-up of the author's opening at the last CPGB aggregate, partially revised in the light both of the discussion there and his afterthoughts ... more

Letters
False premise; Israel's mask; Resourceful; Hopi and Hopa; Constitution fight; Sterile project; Transcendent; Unreflecting; Save our steel; Rule of matter

How not to stop the BNP
The continued rise of the British National Party raises key questions about the left’s strategy. Ben Lewis takes a look at the Socialist Workers Party’s analysis and argues for a root-and-branch rethink

Left nats lose out to SNP nats
Sarah McDonald assesses the effects of deep divisions and ill feelings within the left in Scotland

Too little, too late
Sex education must be comprehensive, clear, and compulsory, writes James Turley

Further into the depths
The recent history of Afghanistan has not only seen the defeat of secularist Kabul by counterrevolution from the countryside. Outside intervention has exacerbated every problem, writes Eddie Ford

CWU militants demand national strike action
A rank and file organisation is needed, writes Jim Moody

Howzat!
Solidarity cricket is good in several ways, writes Howard Roake

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